The Food and Drug Administration headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, on September 23, 2025. Aaron M. Sprecher/AP

A senior Food and Drug Administration official on Friday said the agency will change its vaccine approval process, alleging that Covid-19 vaccination resulted in the deaths of 10 children.

In an internal memo obtained by CNN, Dr. Vinay Prasad — the FDA’s chief medical and scientific officer and the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research — claimed, “Healthy young children who faced tremendously low risk of death were coerced, at the behest of the Biden administration, via school and work mandates, to receive a vaccine that could result in death.”

Prasad did not provide details about the deaths or how the FDA came to that conclusion, but pointed to

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